A House Divided: The Antebellum Slavery Debates in America, 1776-1865Mason I. Lowance Jr. Princeton University Press, 05 հնս, 2018 թ. - 568 էջ This anthology brings together under one cover the most important abolitionist and--unique to this volume--proslavery documents written in the United States between the American Revolution and the Civil War. It makes accessible to students, scholars, and general readers the breadth of the slavery debate. Including many previously inaccessible documents, A House Divided is a critical and welcome contribution to a literature that includes only a few volumes of antislavery writings and no volumes of proslavery documents in print. |
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... race , ethnicity , and the essentialist arguments about African character and quality that had been advanced by Josiah Clark Nott and George Gliddon fifty years earlier . Both of Twain's works are searing social satires , taking apart ...
... RACE AND THE ARGUMENTS AGAINST SLAVERY The context of a commercial culture provided proslavery advocates with a free- trade argument for continuing the institution — indeed , for its expansion . Slaves were commercial property , and a ...
... race theory . As the historian Philip Gould observes , “ for the eighteenth century , the slave trade as a corrupt ... race and the classification of humanity into a hierarchy of racial groups . It is this pseudoscientific movement that ...
... racial equality , and the “ race theory ” documents in this volume are overwhelmingly supportive of the view that the African is essentially inferior to the white . Relying on earlier Renaissance investigations into racial grouping ...
... races , with each race having immutable physi- ological , intellectual , and moral characteristics of its own . White Europeans were at the very top ; the African at the very bottom . The enlightenment " unity of mankind " ideal was ...
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NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS | lxi |
SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING | lxiii |
CHAPTER 1 The Historical Background for the Antebellum Slavery Debates 17761865 | 1 |
CHAPTER 2 Acts of Congress Relating to Slavery | 20 |
CHAPTER 4 Biblical Antislavery Arguments | 88 |
CHAPTER 5 The Economic Arguments Concerning Slavery | 116 |
CHAPTER 6 Writers and Essayists in Conflict over Slavery | 156 |
CHAPTER 7 Science in Antebellum America | 249 |
CHAPTERS 8 The Abolitionist Crusade | 327 |
CHAPTER 9 Concluding Remarks and Alexis de Tocqueville 18051859 | 474 |
INDEX | 485 |
CHAPTER 3 Biblical Proslavery Arguments | 51 |